On the outside I was living the dream. At 25, I was interviewing Hollywood stars, footballers and pop stars such as former Spice Girls Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton, working as a kids’ TV presenter for CITV’s Saturday morning show Toonattik.
My life looked exciting, full of glamorous assignments and people. In reality, I was close to a complete emotional breakdown. I was stuck in a psychologically abusive relationship and deeply unhappy.
Back then, in the early 2000s, we didn’t really use language like coercive control or gaslighting. Nobody around me really understood what was happening – and neither did I.
Psychological abuse
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